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Is Google Losing Tomorrow's Tech Battle?

The following video is part of our "Motley Fool Conversations" series, in which industrials editor and analyst Brendan Byrnes and consumer-goods editor and analyst Austin Smith discuss topics around the investing world.

In today's edition, Brendan and Austin discuss an up-and-coming technology, near field communications (NFC). A joint venture among heavy hitters Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile called Isis could potentially take this market by storm. Juniper estimates that NFC payments will reach $74 billion worldwide by 2015. This is a huge market, with many of the big tech players competing, including Google Wallet. Which companies will prove victorious?

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Originally joining The Motley Fool in 2011 as editor of the Industrials sector, Brendan is now based in New York City where he interviews executives, authors, and influential people from across the investing and business world. He also provides analysis for Fool.com.